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The Scary Mason-Dixon Line : African American Writers and the South /
New Yorker James Baldwin once declared that a black man can look at a map of the United States, contemplate the area south of the Mason-Dixon Line, and thus scare himself to death. In this book, the author a renowned literary scholar explores why black writers, whether born in Mississippi, New York,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baton Rouge :
Louisiana State University Press,
2009.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Southern black writers no matter where they are born
- Such a frightening musical form : James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964)
- Fear of manhood in the wake of systemic racism in Ernest J. Gaines's "Three men" (1968)
- The irresistible appeal of slavery : fear of losing the self in Octavia E. Butler's Kindred (1979)
- Owning the script, owning the self : transcendence of fear in Sherley Anne Williams's Dessa Rose (1986)
- 10,000 miles from Dixie and still in the South : fear of transplanted racism in Yusef Komunyakaa's Vietnam poetry : Dien cai dau (1988)
- Fear of family, Christianity, and the self : Southern black "othering" in Randall Kenan's A visitation of spirits (1989)
- A haunting diary and a slasher quilt : using dynamic folk communities to combat terror in Phyllis Alesia Perry's Stigmata (1998)
- Domesticating fear : Tayari Jones's mission in Leaving Atlanta (2002)
- The worst fear imaginable : black slave owners in Edward P. Jones's The known world (2003)
- No fear; or, autoerotic creativity : how Raymond Andrews pleasures himself in Baby Sweet's (1983).